Re: Script to de-minimize tags like <tt/this/

[Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>]

> >  (Were things
> > like <tt>foobar</> ever legal mimimizations as well?)
> 
> 
> The <tt>foobar</> minimisation is valid SGML, but not valid XML. Seeing that
> DocBook is rapidly moving to XML, we should be writing our SGML with that in
> mind.

Ok - if people have SGML with <tt>booger</> style shortcuts the sed
script
to change them to <tt>booger</tt> should look like:

sed 's/<\([a-z]\+\)>\([^\/]\+\)<\/>/<\1>\2<\/\1>/g'

Sufficient to frighten small children, but functional none the less...

Paul.



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